@ceekay Compared to other sites, this one is still pretty mild. If an answer itself was blocked it often has to do with the person actually not answering the question or picking or attacking someone. I don’t mean attacking their view but attacking the person personally. For instance. Let’s say I asked what are people’s favorite dishes and people started to respond by saying their favorite people and others found it humorous and started to throw in all kinds of silly things. All of them will get their post deleted because they aren’t answering my question. Now if I asked what is your favorite dish to make your lover, under social then the question is different in the sense that you want to know more about behavior, not really just a factual thing.
The idea is for people to actually get the answer they want. Not a nonsense response.
So it does not have to be personal, just a response put in the wrong place.
In the beginning, it took me a while to understand every question should be a question and placed in the right place or it gets sent back to you to edit.
At first, I thought it was about spelling errors (because that is extremely hated here) but when I didn’t find the error then I would write to the mods and they pointed out it was not placed in the right category.
Fluther is more about people actually trying to help each other but like anywhere else, when it comes to politics or religion, it can get a little heated and ugly as very right clashes with very left, but we all do try to keep it civil. I’ve had my responses sometimes blocked and didn’t understand why and asked the mods and sometimes it was because they didn’t see it as actually answering the question. It’s easy to respond to another person’s reply and forget to actually answer the question. Just had a reply blocked the other day, I’m sure for that very reason.
By the way, since this question is about Fluther, it would fall under Meta, Not General.